* The Purple Tiger (Jon@tigersden.demon.co.uk) [030519 08:53]: ->On Monday 19 May 2003 12:45 pm, Dave Smith wrote: ->> As does any non-Briton attempting to pronounce "Loughborough"... ->And for those wo don't live in East Anglia, there is Happisborough ->[pronounced Hays Buh Ruh ;)] And you could go to Southern Illinois and here people pronouce Cairo as K-Row..or you could go to Toronto Canada and hear them pronouce it as if it's spell Tronno. The point is that people pronouce things in English in various places quite differently and sometimes they spell them as they pronouce them if English isn't their first language..or even if it is. :) -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in the opposite direction.